6 Parent power.

• Position: Stateline - Brief article

California's first-in-the-nation "parent trigger" law passed its most significant test to date when a San Bernardino County judge last October ordered the Adelanto school board to grant a petition by parents to convert the Desert Trails Elementary School to a charter school. The ruling came just as a movie inspired by the Adelanto and another case was released. The movie--"Won't Back Down"--and case highlight the 2010 law, which allows at least 50 percent of parents at a persistently failing school to sign a...